Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who tracks spacecraft, confirmed that the satellite's reentry path tracked "over Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...

The 50th woman to fly into space appears in a new ad on TV but is never identified. A banker, an athlete and an astronaut walk onto a stage... No, that is not the setup for a joke, but rather the ...

Tourists and locals flock to the National Mall every year to take in the cherry blossom blooms in the spring, visit the monuments, explore Smithsonian museums, take part in a school trip, or admire ...

There are no showtimes for this date. A Beautiful Planet is a breathtaking portrait of Earth from space, providing a unique perspective and increased understanding of our planet and galaxy as never ...

They all contributed to the rise of bubble tea, the insanely popular Taiwanese drink that’s taken the world by storm in recent years. And now, it’s back in the spotlight thanks to recent ...

Here at the 3,200-acre Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va., is where more than 13,000 stalks of bamboo, are harvested by the zoo each year. The bamboo feeds several ...

Some 25 million radio signals were detected, but all were eliminated by a clever computer code as terrestrial radio frequency interference. The latest hunt for alien signals in the TRAPPIST-1 ...